The Crown With No Deed: How Canada Took the Haldimand Tract Without Proof.

The Crown With No Deed: How Canada Took the Haldimand Tract Without Proof.

Posted in: Red Tape & Red Truths
Tagline: Cutting through the lies. Stitching back the truth.

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Who Owns the Haldimand Tract?

“Show me the deed.”

If I tried to sell you land I didn’t own, I’d be hauled off for fraud before the ink dried. But when Canada claims ownership of 950,000 acres known as the Haldimand Tract, no one asks for proof. They just nod politely and move on.

So, let’s ask the question no government official seems eager to answer:

Where is the Crown’s proof of legal title to the Haldimand Tract?

Spoiler alert: There isn’t one.

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What Is the Haldimand Proclamation?

🔍 A Little Background

In 1784, the British Crown issued the Haldimand Proclamation, granting land along the Grand River to the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) in recognition of their alliance and losses during the American Revolution.

Not a lease. Not a temporary handout. A grant of land "to take possession of and settle upon."

And yet… today, that land is gone. Swallowed up by settlers, municipalities, and private developers.

The Six Nations of the Grand River now control less than 5% of the original Tract.

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🔍 The Legal Muzzle That Silenced Six Nations

📜 So What Happened?

For over two centuries, lands were leased, sold, and expropriated without Six Nations’ free, prior, and informed consent. Often without any consent at all.

To make it worse, until the 1950s, Indigenous communities in Canada were forbidden by law to hire lawyers to challenge any of it. (Section 141 of the Indian Act, check it out here.)

So while Canada was busy selling stolen land, Six Nations couldn’t even file a complaint.

And now? Canada says they need time to “review historical records” and “determine the legitimacy” of claims.

Two centuries of theft, and we’re still talking about “negotiation frameworks.”

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🔍 How Canada Justifies Land Theft Without a Legal Deed

⚖️ Canada’s Legal Leg to Stand On?

Let’s break it down:

• No valid surrender of the Haldimand Tract has ever been produced.

• No treaty extinguishing Haudenosaunee title.

• No clean record of how the land was taken or transferred.

• Just an assumption of sovereignty based on colonial arrogance.

Canada relies on the Doctrine of Discovery and the assertion of Crown sovereignty, a nice way of saying, we took it because we said we could.

It’s legalized land theft dressed up in government language and court precedents.

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🔍 Six Nations Land Claim: Loss of Use, Opportunity, and Unjust Enrichment💸 

What’s Being Claimed?

The Six Nations land claim, filed in 1995, isn’t just about getting land back. It includes:

• Loss of Use: Being denied access to their own lands for over 200 years.

• Loss of Opportunity: Economic growth, housing, development...all blocked by dispossession.

• Unjust Enrichment: Canada, Ontario, and third parties profited off stolen land, while Six Nations were pushed to the margins.

And they’re not asking for charity. They’re demanding what’s rightfully theirs.

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🔍 What Is a Nation Without a Deed, a Crown Without Consent?

🧨 The Bigger Question

What happens when a country that claims to respect “rule of law” has no lawful basis for the land it sits on?

What happens when the people who have the receipts...the maps, the proclamations, the treaties, are the ones dismissed, displaced, and delayed?

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🔍 Red Tape Buried the Truth—We’re Digging It Back Up

🪓 Red Tape. Red Truth.

This isn’t just a land claim. It’s a truth claim. A truth that’s been buried under red tape, bureaucracy, and denial for far too long.

Canada doesn’t have a leg to stand on, it’s been leaning on stolen ground for generations.

And the ground is starting to shift.

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